{"id":673,"date":"2019-05-09T16:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/?p=673"},"modified":"2019-06-11T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:04:45","slug":"evelyn-marks-suny-cortland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/evelyn-marks-suny-cortland\/","title":{"rendered":"Evelyn Marks, SUNY Cortland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) major at SUNY Cortland, but before that I was an Adolescent Education major. I\u2019m kind of a \u201csuper duper senior\u201d because I graduated more than 2 years ago with a B.A. in English, which makes me a non-traditional student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have two plans that I could go for after graduating. I could get my master\u2019s here at Cortland and then go to New York City to teach, or the second plan is basically going abroad and teaching. I pay for college with loans and work. I used to receive TAP and the Pell Grant when I was initially going to college, but I don\u2019t receive them anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I work part-time at Walmart, roughly 20 hours a week. Last year I worked full-time and could barely balance my workload between classes and work. This year it\u2019s a lot easier to balance the workload. I get my textbooks through the inter-library loan, which is awesome because you don\u2019t have to pay a million dollars for books. I use whatever money I have leftover from work for food, even though right now I don\u2019t have a lot of money for that, either. I was going to apply for SNAP, but I heard that college kids aren\u2019t always eligible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if I didn\u2019t receive financial aid for college I would still go, considering that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing for the past couple of years, but I am concerned about graduating on time. Some of the classes I need to take actually conflict with other classes I need, which means I have to push my graduation date out a year, essentially. I think SUNY\/CUNY should be free because I think that students shouldn\u2019t have to worry about scraping together money for college when they should be trying to perform better in classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) major at SUNY Cortland, but before that I was an Adolescent Education major. I\u2019m kind of a \u201csuper duper senior\u201d because I graduated more than 2 years ago with a B.A. in English, which makes me a non-traditional student. I have two plans that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,50],"tags":[105,18,28,101,19,15,20],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school","category-suny-cortland","tag-course-offerings","tag-job","tag-pell-grant","tag-snap","tag-student-loans","tag-tap","tag-textbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nypirgstudents.org\/storybank\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}